spo0nman writes "The PythonOnPlanes release team has just published PythonOnPlanes-1.3.07 aka. 'the SuperSunday' release. For those in the know PythonOnPlanes is a rapid development framework for Python which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association DataMapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables Python users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.'Major highlights in the release include Active Scrum Manager 1, Sanity Preserver 3.13 and Lart 22.21. This is also the first release with the *PythonOnPlanes Live CD Installer* officially debuting on the x86 platform.'"

After however times they've done this, the only way they could pull an april fools joke is by tricking people by not putting up any fake stories. Instead, post stories that sound fake but really aren't.

Or... post serious stories, but have all the links go to the wrong articles. Maybe have them all go to the same site, so that it gets slashdotted extra severely.

Maybe the rest of them aren't but this one's pretty subtle (so subtle that it doesn't yet have april fools tags), and clever. I, for one, am going to be upgrading my web space workflow with the Synergy 2.0a plugin. What snakes are on YOUR plane?

It's not that subtle but it's still plausible (except for the time between the movie and the claim that a completed project is available), Python is named after Monty Python and naming a Python project "Python on Planes" is not that unthinkable (I've seen sillier names for opensource projects) though it may be a bit silly since "on Planes" doesn't exactly sound like a rapid prototyping tool. The other tool names are just as plausible. Hell, Python comes with a module called pickle and an IDE named IDLE. Exa

Yes, this year did suck. A bunch of boring stories that weren't half way credible, along with a digg-like slashdottit counter...But honestly, I really do miss the ponies. Say, is there some extension or clever css hack to bring the ponies back? (and, yes I would actually browse like that everyday! seriously!) Is the only way writing a greasemonkey script to replace images and css by hand? Because my javascript-fu isn't exactly great... Any other ways? Hell, I would PAY for a webite that could proxy slashdot

Shoot, we had to make do with Fortran on Feet. And we had to hand carry our Holloriths, too. Seventeen flights of stairs from the punchcard stations to the cardreader, through waist deep snow, and uphill both ways.

Hee, hee... I remember when Crazy Dave started saving all the chad from the bitbuckets of the cardpunch machines. After about a month he had this huge bag of microconfetti, and one afternoon when the Admin had his back to us (rethreading the backup highspeed tape machin

What I really like about slashdot is that every year they manage to sneak in one subtle, carefully crafted April's Fool joke amid all of the reagular stories. Their prank blends in very well almost unnoticable, unless for the the prepared or critical reader. If you're not alert, you're made to believe something totally outrageous. Subtlety, careful avoidance to reference the actual date, and not ruining the joke by overdoing it: that is the real April Fool's spirit! I thank slashdot for honoring this tradation.

I'm Samuel L Jackson, and I want to take a moment to tell you about a film that's near and dear to my heart, SNAKES ON A PLANE! SNAKES ON A PLANE just might be the BEST film ever made! Grab yo homegirl, stop combin' that FUNKY HAIRDO, and GO SEE SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!

What the flying hell is that "Slashdottit!" box doing next to the articles. It doesn't display correctly in Safari (unless you like the left letters missing in a paragraph), and it's spelled Slashdot Tit....Slashdot.... Tit....

Whomever is to blame for this... tie him up and make him squeal like a pig. In either case, can someone tell me how to diable it? Thanks...

It's no where near as much fun when you know just about everything put out in all the media is a joke. It kind of sucks when you aren't in the mood for it. I kind of love the holiday. But the point is to actually fool some people. It's not going to happen when everything that comes out is BS.

But before we panic and look at the bandwidth bills, let me congratulate the perverted genius of Mr spo0nman [livejournal.com] (and KingDiamond [puneruby.com], indirectly).
All in all, I think Yahoo! deserves the most credit for boring the hell out of us "cheap indian labour" to make things like
this worth our time;)

I believed this one completely. I even tried the Web site and wondered how fucked up a Web framework project could be when none of the links - supposedly on a Web site built using their own product - worked! Shows you how much confidence I have in most of these projects...

Why not?

It was completely plausible that some OSS clowns would name their project after a braindead movie!